Cerro Portezuelo
Basic information
Sample name: Cerro Portezuelo
Sample aka: Xolhuango
Reference: W. Giddens Teeter. 2013. Cerro Portezuelo faunal remains and worked bone: what can be learned from early excavated collections. Ancient Mesoamerica 24:201-212 [ER 3833]
Geography
Country: Mexico
State: Mexico
Coordinate: 19.38° N, -98.88° W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map
Time interval: Holocene
Max Ma: 0.00205
Min Ma: 0.00045
Age basis: other
Geography comments: "in the modern municipality of Chimalhuacan" and "today known as Xolhuango"
Xolhuango is not to be found, so the site location is estimated from the map given by Nichols et al. (2013, Ancient Mesoamerica)
"Cerro Portezuelo measures 1.8 km east-west and 1 km north-south"
occupation "began in the Late Formative period and continued into the sixteenth century" and the material dates from "approximately 100 b.c. to a.d. 1500"
Xolhuango is not to be found, so the site location is estimated from the map given by Nichols et al. (2013, Ancient Mesoamerica)
"Cerro Portezuelo measures 1.8 km east-west and 1 km north-south"
occupation "began in the Late Formative period and continued into the sixteenth century" and the material dates from "approximately 100 b.c. to a.d. 1500"
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: human accumulation,settlement
Archaeology: bone tools,buildings,burials,ceramics
Habitat comments: from numerous trenches scattered across a site that was a "city"
numerous specimens were human-modified, including needles, awls, and pins, indicating that this is a human accumulation
one of the excavated areas yielded "a burial" and "several ceramic items" and another was part of a "building"
numerous specimens were human-modified, including needles, awls, and pins, indicating that this is a human accumulation
one of the excavated areas yielded "a burial" and "several ceramic items" and another was part of a "building"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,birds,turtles
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 97 specimens
Years: 1954, 1956, 1957, 1961, 1962
Sampling comments: there is also a single horse specimen that may be a reworked Pleistocene fossil
Metadata
Sample number: 4185
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2023-03-24 22:19:07
Modified: 2023-03-24 11:19:07
Abundance distribution
13 species
3 singletons
total count 97
geometric series index: 20.6
Fisher's α: 4.037
geometric series k: 0.7647
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8513
Shannon's H: 2.1578
Good's u: 0.9693
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Register
| Trachemys scripta | 1 | |
| Gopherus flavomarginatus | 4 | |
| Anas sp. | 5 | |
| Meleagris sp. | 5 | |
| Homo sapiens | 1 | 64 kg |
| Sylvilagus sp. | 6 | |
| Lepus sp. | 12 | |
| Cratogeomys sp. | 11 | |
| Thomomys sp. | 2 | |
| Microtus mexicanus | 1 | 27.7 g |
| Canis lupus familiaris | 25 | 43 kg carnivore |
| "Canis familiaris" | ||
| Taxidea taxus | 5 | 7.0 kg carnivore |
| Odocoileus virginianus | 19 | 75 kg herbivore |